Virtualisation offers obvious benefits in terms of flexibility and the ability to run tens, or even hundreds, of virtualised systems in one box. But the actual performance of virtualised systems has ...

AMD announced Monday it took the No. 1 spot on the VMware VMmark virtualization benchmark for x86 servers with its quad-core Opteron processor running HP ProLiant DL585 G5 servers. The hardware ...

VMware Inc. is making a free benchmarking tool available to IT professionals Monday to evaluate the performance of virtualization technology in their data centers. Meanwhile, it seeks to assure ...

VMware's new benchmark will focus on the entire virtualized data center rather than a single host server like the new virtualization benchmark from SPEC If Mark Twain were alive today, he might have ...

We’ve talked a lot about virtualization in this newsletter. There is no denying that those organizations not yet plotting their virtualization strategy likely will be left at a disadvantage. I wrote a ...

VMware has created yet another technical paper in the hopes that its benchmark numbers and charts will showcase their hypervisor solution, VMware ESX Server 3.0.1, over that of its competitor, ...

VMware is warning that ESXi VMs running on Linux kernel 5.19 can have up to a 70% performance drop when Retbleed mitigations are enabled compared to the Linux kernel 5.18 release. More specifically, ...

VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...